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Sisters in Literature

Female Sexuality in Antigone , Middlemarch , Howards End and Women in Love

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Masako Hirai

    1. English Department, Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Japan

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Common Doom

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 8-24

  4. Reading Antigone

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 25-40

  5. Middlemarch: From Heroic Legend to Emotional History

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 41-76

  6. Howards End: From Letters to a Connecting Vision

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 77-120

  7. Women in Love (1): The Disruptive Style, its Images and Arguments

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 121-168

  8. Women in Love (2): The Language Between

    • Masako Hirai
    Pages 169-210

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 211-221
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About this book

A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters. The author provides an interconnected case-study where each text works on the hidden meanings of the other. Female sexuality, expressed through the language of duality (vulnerability, frustration, submission and destructivity, consummation and rebirth), becomes an ideal vehicle for crossing the barriers between sexes and between societies, as between the texts themselves.

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'Admirably done, extremely perceptive and very well written. The connections she finds between novels under discussion are genuine, and illuminating, and her book will be of interest to all who value as central to the English novel tradition the works of George Elliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence.' - Sir Frank Kermode

Authors and Affiliations

  • English Department, Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Japan

    Masako Hirai

About the author

Masako Hirai is Professor in the English Department at Kobe University in Nishinomiya, Japan.

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